Indeed, interest has been so high from iPhonians (hi guys!) that it has become our top read article of the week!

So, in the interests of research I put on my internet radiation suit and headed over to our old friends at iMore to see what they were saying about it and yes, there are people with issues there.

But I found something even more interesting.

Last month iMore asked their readers to list the Top 5 features that they’d like to see in iOS8 which they say will be released in mid-2015 (remember that date). And, duly, the readers have obliged.

So I started to read through.

Now, I’m no iPhonian. I haven’t got one and don’t intend to get one (especially a gold one) but what was there really shocked me.

WHAT APPLE USERS WANT, BLACKBERRY 10 ALREADY DOES.

Here’s a list of the sort of things I’ve seen:

1) The ability to Select All in messages rather than go in and out of each one CHECK!
2) Unified Synergy-style messaging hub (Messages + FaceTime all in one app, with 3rd-party silos eventually). CHECK!
3) Actionable lock screen notifications CHECK!
4) Real Multi Tasking CHECK!
5) A 3rd party keyboard cos the stock one isn’t very good (well, no need, the BB10 one is best in class) CHECK!
6) NFC CHECK!
7) An app that makes it clear what files are saved in the cloud and the amount of storage remaining. (Dropbox, Box and OneDrive) CHECK!
8) File Manager CHECK!
9) Notification LED CHECK!
10) Print to PDF CHECK!
11) Dark Theme (someone said the phone burns their eyeballs at night) CHECK!
12) Ability to ‘Hide’ apps (Blackberry Style) well… CHECK!
13) Message, mail etc notifications in the status bar with a number in for how many unread (and they don’t go away until they are seen or deleted) CHECK!
14) Flash support (yes, they said it!) CHECK!
15) Ability to see what is driving battery usage CHECK!

That’s just 15 for starters, there are loads more, I stopped about a third of the way through and yes, there was something about getting attachments on an email and stopping the SMS alert from dinging in your ear when you’re on the phone but I’ll leave it to you to find those!

In fact, other than REALLY Apple specific things like Apple TV integration or iBook pretty much everything they want BY MID 2015 – we already have.

One person was told ‘well, why not get a BlackBerry?’ to which the answer was ‘they don’t have the apps’.

WRONG!

Got em all, thanks.

So, why not head over to iMore and see what you can spot? I’m sure there are loads more.

No need to comment over there, that would be unfair and, to be honest, counter productive as you’ll get into one of those ‘white is black, black is white arguments’, just have a look and come back with what you find.

And if you are an iPhonian who has just found us through our bricked iPhone article for help, you’ve come to the right place.

I’m not sure the author’s meaning by hiding Apps BlackBerry Style, but with BB10 you have a separate page of Active Frames. Switching between apps is a matter of swiping from the bottom to bring you to a screen of your open apps and switching between them by tapping the frame or closing them by tapping the X at the bottom right of the frame. On iOS 7 you double tap then swipe side to side to navigate and then swipe up to close. Having used both, BlackBerry’s implementation is easier and faster, imho.